On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 04:23:09PM +0000, Darran D. Rimron-Molloy wrote: > this existed in Mandrake9.0 (but not 8.2) and is also here in Beta1 of > 9.1 (just downloading the latest cooker, but not holding out any hopes) > > [mainly] anti-aliased text that is rendered to screen B is frequently > rendered to screen A but opening a menu or switch desktops wipes it... > > Setup is an 1 Gig Athlon, Matrox G550Dual, 2x Iiyama 17" VMPro's > (atleast that's what the drivers think it is, it's actually Belinea 22" > Pro Digitals), 512meg PC133 RAM (2x256meg) and a 100gig of random IDE > disks - I also have a WinTV card and a few other random (hopefully > unrelated goodies) in the machine... > > Additionally, the MandrakeLinux menu is empty (contains "What To Do?" > submenu but that is empty too) and DRI/XVideo fails to work on Display2 > - but I always had that so not worried about it > > I hope this is the right sorta info you need. > > The install was vanilla 9.0 (which restarting X seemed to screw up > fonts) so I just threw 9.1b1 on the top of it.... This did magic like > make Evolution work (1.0.8 on multiple remote Imap servers was REALLY > unstable 1.2 is much nicer) and the new Galeon looks just sweeeeeeeet :) > > Actually, /home was not wiped -- so maybe there's a .dotfile that is > causing the problems? The /home partition is left over from my RedHat6 > days.... :-/ I "rm -rf .gnome*" to see if it helped, to no avail....
Known bug in the Matrox drivers. It's been there for a long time. As far as I know nobody has figured out why it occurs... -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion only of her own." -- John Quincy Adams, July 4th, 1821
